Lecture Courses

Lecturer: Denise Allen A series of six lectures held on Friday mornings 1 November to 6 December To enrol, please complete a Lecture Courses 2019-20 Booking Form. For 2019-2020 10 classes 6 classes Standard Fee £90 £54 Reduced fee for Senior citizens or unwaged £80 £48    

Lecturer: Richard Sandover A series of six lectures held on Monday afternoons 6 January to 9 March To enrol, please complete a Lecture Courses 2019-20 Booking Form. For 2019-2020 10 classes 6 classes Standard Fee £90 £54 Reduced fee for Senior citizens or unwaged £80 £48    

Lecturer: Derek Gore A series of ten lectures held on Friday mornings 10 January to 13 March To enrol, please complete a Lecture Courses 2019-20 Booking Form. For 2019-2020 10 classes 6 classes Standard Fee £90 £54 Reduced fee for Senior citizens or unwaged £80 £48    

Lecturer: Denise Allen A series of ten sessions held on Friday afternoons; 8 lectures plus 2 field/museum visits 24 January to 27 March To enrol, please complete a Lecture Courses 2019-20 Booking Form. For 2019-2020 10 classes 6 classes Standard Fee £90 £54 Reduced fee for Senior citizens or unwaged £80 £48    

Lecturer: Robert Morkot A series of six lectures held on Tuesday evenings 11 February to 17 March To enrol, please complete a Lecture Courses 2019-20 Booking Form. For 2019-2020 10 classes 6 classes Standard Fee £90 £54 Reduced fee for Senior citizens or unwaged £80 £48    

10 Sessions - Online via Zoom Derek Gore Why did people dig holes to bury their valuables in or throw their treasured possessions into water or sink them into bogs? These were common practices in Europe from at least 4000 BC to the 17th century AD but the reasons for these practices are not straightforward. …

February 15th – March 22nd 2022 7-9pm Robert Morkot 6 Sessions On-line via Zoom The ‘Sea Peoples’ have been blamed for the ‘collapse’ of the Late Bronze age states of the Eastern Mediterranean. From Mycenaean Greece, through the lands of the Hittite Empire to the Levant, destruction levels in archaeological sites have been attributed to …

6 sessions: Fridays, 13th January to February 10th; 10.30 to 12.30. At Berkeley House and on Zoom. The activities of the Great Army between 865 and 878 are described in some detail in the Chronicles. Recently sites associated with the Army have been identified and excavated and a fuller, rather surprising, picture is beginning to …

6 sessions: Mondays, 7th November to 12th December; 10.30 to 12.30.  At Berkeley House and on Zoom. Egypt under the rule of the Roman Emperors is generally thought of as ‘too late’ to be Pharaonic, but not Roman enough to be placed alongside other provinces: it is anomalous, but that is a major part of …

6 sessions: Mondays, 9th January to 13th February; 10.30 to 12.30. At Berkeley House and on Zoom. The Byzantine Empire and its great capital Constantinople influenced cultures across the globe for many centuries – from the Venetians, the Germanic tribes and kingdoms of the West to the Russians, Arabs, and Turks to the north and …